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Unemployment is a growing problem in the United States. The government has gone as far as to give incentives to businesses to create new jobs or rekindle old ones. However, the incentives do little to help when businesses keep the money in their savings... This article examines what's going on in the economy now, as well as what we can see in the future in terms of employment (or, in this case, unemployment).

In order to create new jobs, the senate of Arizona has just backed a bill that will cut business tax and give tax breaks to families in order to create new jobs. People in support of the package said that it would diversify the state economy and provide high-paying jobs by attracting business expansions and relocations.

This article examines how small business loans help empower impoverished women in Peru. Finca Peru is a microfinance institution that gives business loans primarily to women, and has been enabling new business ventures. Additionally, the article presents how a small loan can cause a big economic change within a family, and even within a community.

This article presents one of the possible outcomes of implementing a business tax, which is great dislike and confrontations from businesses towards the government. Furthermore, the possibility of people losing jobs is still present, and threatens the balance of the economy in general.

In this article, the EU has come up with a strategy to improve the economy and pull itself out of recession. This shows the Keynesian view because the EU is trying to reach the third stage of the Keynesian view.

This article mentions one oligopoly, relating to the internet, in which several competitors, including Google, eBay, Yahoo, have found several barriers to entry the market in China due to censorship.

Carrefour Indonesia is in hot water with the Business Competition Supervisory Commission. Carrefour has been accused of causing unfair business competition by purchasing over 50% of market shares in the modern market. In this case, monopoly is not rewarded, but rather punished.

This article speaks about the United States, and about President Obama's desire to boost employment. He wants banks to increase lending to small businesses as a way to increasing employment.

In this article, Obama's intentions of increasing employment levels and economic growth are being shown through his pressure on banks to increase lending to small businesses.

This article talks about how Toyota's electric car has always had problems that need to be fixed. Toyota manages to solve thes problems and always brings back a better model. This article relates to Public Goods because the electric car is an invention that was created to help with air polution. Air is not something that can be bought or sold, and it is our reponsability to keep it clean. Toyota's electric car is providing an alternative to only using petrol to power cars.

This article is talking about how different car companies are starting to sell electric cars because consumers have become interested in helping the environment. In response, car companies have started to produce environmentally friendly cars to apease the consumers. This shows non-price discrimination in the consumer because they are no longer looking for the lowest prices, they are looking for the most environmentally friendly.

The article mentions about United State's debt expanding like a baloon, soon to blow up and fail the economy. During a recession, the govenrment must keep on running the economy even at budget deficit so they must keep on borrowing money. Yet, these loans must be returned in some way, and article reports a possible higher tax coming soon to compensate the loans.

This is article is about how Canadian sawmillers will not have to pay as many taxes now due to an increase in lumber prices. The sawmillers had to pay a sliding rate export tax inder a 2006 US-Canadian agreement. The rate of this business tax is now reduces 5%.

This article is about the profit the insurance, private pension and savings bond businesses of Brazilian banking group Itaú Unibanco had in the third quarter. Business by business, life and private pension plans contributed to this gain. Total profit was $216 million USD.

This article is about an large increase in profit of Warren Buffet's investment firm. Revenue increased by two billion dollars in the course on one year.

This article relates to the great competitivity which is undoubtedly present in the Canadian music market, "with 11 times the music businesses expected for its size."

This article from BBC NEWS - WORLD ECONMY to alert bankers that they must realise that world has changed. Alistair Darling said that the party has got to be over for bankers; he wants to use some regulations to force banks to limit the proportion of their profits that they can give out in bonuses and make sure there are no rewards for failure. Mr. darling wants the bankers to behave sensibly at some situations. Mr. Darling's idea is to also have blacklist of countries that are regulatory havens where the rules and regulations companies have to follow are less onerous. In conclusion we could say that this article relates to scarcity because bankers wants to get more and more profits without thinking sensibly, that is why Mr. Darling needs to limit them.

This article from the BBC exposes the rate at which oil is running out, and the consequences it will have on society. The implication is that the market price of oil is far cheaper than its real value, and this means that consumption is rapidly exceeding production. The article questions whether oil rationing should be imposed in order to preserve this scarce resource.

Toyota will recall 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles because of brake flaws, newspapers reported Sunday, in the latest blow to the Japanese car giant reeling from safety woes that have sullied its reputation. this takes a tole on society for those who try to help unpollute the world. where this good is well, good and now its gone

Ottawa makes it harder for people to get a mortgage. This is being done because they are trying to avoid market failure in the market for housing as is going on in other countries.

This article is about the unemployment rate in the United States. Seeing as one of the macroeconomic goals is full employment, this article examines how the U.S. is failing to reach those goals.